Ajax live regions: chat as a case example

  • Authors:
  • Peter Thiessen;Charles Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario;The University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Web 2.0 enabled by the Ajax architecture has given rise to a new level of user interactivity through web browsers. Many new and extremely popular Web applications have been introduced such as Google Maps, Google Docs, Flickr, and so on. Ajax Toolkits such as Dojo allow web developers to build Web 2.0 applications quickly and with little effort. Unfortunately, the accessibility support in most toolkits and Ajax applications overall is lacking. WAI-ARIA markup for live regions presents a solution to making these applications accessible. A chat example is presented that shows the live regions in action and demonstrates several limitations of ARIA live regions.